Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker has signed into law a bill designed to target nonlawyer ownership of law firms, outlawing fee sharing with out-of-state alternative business structures and attempting to place restrictions on law firms' use of managed services organizations.
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Ill. Gov. Signs Bill Restricting PE Role In Legal Industry

By Emma Cueto

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker has signed into law a bill designed to target nonlawyer ownership of law firms, outlawing fee sharing with out-of-state alternative business structures and attempting to place restrictions on law firms' use of managed services organizations.

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AbbVie, Novartis Seek To Block Ill. 340B Drug Discount Law

By Gianna Ferrarin

AbbVie Inc. and Novartis Pharmaceuticals are urging an Illinois federal court to block a state law that took effect Friday barring pharmaceutical manufacturers from trying to impose restrictions on 340B contract pharmacy arrangements, arguing in a pair of suits that the law is unconstitutional.

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Northwestern To Pay $4M In COVID-Era Tuition Refunds

By Lauraann Wood

Northwestern University is set to pay $4 million to settle students' pursuit of refunds after the COVID-19 pandemic forced class instruction online, which the students alleged violated their agreement with the university.

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Judge Trims Wells Fargo Ex-VP Whistleblower Suit

By Celeste Bott

An Illinois federal judge Friday trimmed a former Wells Fargo testing and validation executive's suit alleging she was fired for flagging reporting inaccuracies, finding that her allegations were too vague and that she did not correctly report the alleged activity to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

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Judge Trims BCBS Privacy Suit Over Public Site Data

By Celeste Bott

Blue Cross Blue Shield Association beat most claims in a proposed privacy class action Friday when an Illinois federal judge ruled that federal employees' searches for doctors, symptoms and medical conditions on its public website did not amount to protected health information.

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LEGAL INDUSTRY

Trump Picks Ex-Personal Lawyer As New White House Counsel

By Courtney Bublé

President Donald Trump's incoming White House counsel is a former personal attorney for the president who is already working for the White House and was at the U.S. Department of Justice during his first term.

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Spa Fights 9th Circ.'s 'Swinging Dicks' Order At High Court

By Jeff Overley

The Ninth Circuit's rejection of a spa's religious objections to serving transgender customers is incompatible with several major precedents, according to a U.S. Supreme Court petition filed Monday in litigation that soared in prominence when dozens of circuit judges decried a salacious dissent.

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CREXi Can't Stay CoStar Case For Quinn Emanuel DQ Appeal

By Matthew Perlman

A California federal court rejected a bid Monday from Commercial Real Estate Exchange Inc., or CREXi, for a stay in CoStar's copyright case while CREXi looks to undo the disqualification of its attorneys from Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP.

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Biz Owners Appeal Morgan Lewis Win In Tax Shelter Suit

By Andrea Keckley

A pair of business owners asked the Florida Supreme Court to reverse a decision affirming judgment in favor of Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP in a dispute over whether the law firm had routed income through illegal tax shelters.

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Hill Ward Henderson

Hogan Lovells

Johnson Pope Bokor Ruppel & Burns LLP

King & Spalding

Kirkland & Ellis

Latham & Watkins

Littler Mendelson

Morgan Lewis

Quinn Emanuel

Sperling Kenny

Zimmerman Reed

COMPANIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

AbbVie Inc.

Alliance Defending Freedom

American Civil Liberties Union

American International Group Inc.

BDO LLP

BDO USA LLP

Blue Cross Blue Shield Association

Boy Scouts of America

ByteDance Ltd.

CRC Advisors

CoStar Group Inc.

Federalist Society

Google LLC

International Center for Technology Assessment

Lambda Legal Defense & Educational Fund

LinkedIn Corp.

LoopNet Inc.

Otis Worldwide Corp.

Pacific Justice Institute

TikTok Inc.

Wells Fargo & Co.

GOVERNMENT AGENCIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

Florida Supreme Court

Illinois Attorney General's Office

National Capital Planning Commission

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

U.S. Department of Justice

U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Illinois

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

U.S. Supreme Court

Washington Attorney General's Office